So yeah, it was like the day or so before Christmas right? I don't remember exactly. I just remember clicking my favorites bar to click on, "PSF." I went there and ended up on a white page. I kind of brushed it off and retried, then retried again. Each click got a bit more frantic, but then I tried to ease myself into thinking the site would be fine when i come back in a few hours.
Things didn't get better. So then I did the first thing I could think of and went to MasterXtreme's profile on Deviant Art which he thankfully had updated with something, but my heart sank when I read it. "PSF Shut down." I was still hopeful as he updated, though I didn't have a membership nor logged on. I then went to see if the MLPS Was still up and it was. So I figured if something MAJOR would happen, iI could at least find out there, and hope that new sneeze art would be uploaded there. Well Decemeber finished with no sneeze art or stories and it seemed kinda like forever. I wondered how everyone was doing, and I kept checking the frequent updates by MasterXtreme.
I kept hoping for an early January release of PSF because I was worried that as time mounted, people would eventually dwindle in waiting. I wasn't sure how many people were waiting since not many responded on his Deviant Art, but I just hoped there were more lurkers like me. I grew happier when I saw a new forum pop up and I saw many familiar names there. I was also happy to read the support for PSF from other community websites and even prominent pony artists. That was pretty cool.
In what seemed like fifteen years, I finally came here thanks to a link from MasterXtreme's deviant art blog. I was so happy when I clicked that, that I actually held off a day before creating the account. I just was looking around and had the biggest grin on my face in probably months.
I am so happy to be here and am really upset about what happened to PSF 1.0. I only know what I read from MasterX's blog, but can tell Proboards was shady about it. Oh well, that is behind us and we got a clean new slate with tons of potential to grow as a community! Here's to us!